Reading The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare

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Eno.

Her Gentlewoman, like the Nereides,

So many Mer‑maides tended her i'th'eyes,

And made their bends adornings. At the Helme.

A seeming Mer‑maide steeres: The Silken Tackle,

Swell with the touches of those Flower‑soft hands,

That yarely frame the office. From the Barge

A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense

Of the adiacent Wharfes. The Citty cast

Her people out vpon her: and Anthony

Enthron'd i'th'Market‑place, did sit alone,

Whisling to'th'ayre: which but for vacancie,

Had gone to gaze on Cleopater too,

And made a gap in Nature.

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